Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
Turning to Texas politics, Yarborough said he would support the straight Democratic ticket in this year's election as he had in the past but added that he had "supported bitterly distasteful candidates before." He characterized Governor John Conally, Republican Senator John Tower, and Attorney General Waggoner Carr as "a biological miracle: political triplets...
...municipal officials, many of whom were hoping that a mayor might get the job. His academic background and experience in Government housing clearly made him better qualified than any city official. Nevertheless, he has a reputation for being professionally cautious and personally aloof-a man more comfortable with ivory tower theoreticians than with city hall politicians...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...
Each student has his own particular reason for wanting to move off-campus. Many of them argue that 3 a.m. conversations have become more of a distraction than an enlightment, and that the dormitory atmosphere is isolated--an Ivory Tower. Others complain that they want to be able to run their own lives, eating when they like, selecting their own company, and winning a sense of independence. Finally there are the economists who insist that they could exist much more comfortably at a lower cost; in fact, many students are paying for two sets of meals--the ones they...